Lhasa facts for kids

Lhasa
Quick facts for kids Lhasa ; 城关区 • ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས།; ; Chengguan
	District
	城关区 • ཁྲིན་ཀོན་ཆུས
	From upper left: roof of the Jokhang Temple; Norbulingka monastery main gate; Potala Palace; Wheel of Dharma and prayer wheels (bottom), Jokhang; satellite picture of Lhasa
	Chengguan District (pink) within Lhasa (yellow)
Country	China
Region	Tibet Autonomous Region
Prefecture-level city	Lhasa
Government
• Type	District (China)
Area
• District	525 km2 (203 sq mi)
• Urban	77.88 km2 (30.07 sq mi)
Elevation	3,656 m (11,995 ft)
Population (2010)
• District	279,074
• Density	531.6/km2 (1,377/sq mi)
• Major Ethnic groups	Tibetan; Han; Hui
• Languages	Tibetan Mandarin Jin language (Hohhot dialect)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	850000
Area code(s)	891

Lhasa (Tibetan: ལྷ་ས།; Chinese: 拉萨) is a city in Tibet. It is one of the highest cities in the world. It has many Tibetan Buddhist sites such as the Potala Palace, Jokhang and Norbulingka.

Images for kids

Songsten Gampo
Lhasa's (western gate)- the Tibetans called this chorten, Pargo Kaling pictured here at the time of the 1904 British expedition to Tibet was destroyed by the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army after the March 10th, 1959 Tibetan uprising and flight of the 14th Dalai Lama.
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Lhasa sits in a flat river valley
Map including Lhasa (DMA, 1973)
The built-up area (pink) within the Chengguan District (yellow)
An elderly Tibetan woman holding a prayer wheel on the street in Chengguan District, Lhasa
Woman with son busking in Chengguan District, Lhasa, 1993
Banak Shöl Hotel
The Potala Palace
Inner and outer Zhol Village as seen from the Potala Palace in 1938.
Norbulingka
Jokhang Square
Ramoche Temple
Tibet Museum
Bar in Lhasa with image of Potala on wall; 1993
Tibet University Auditorium (2007)
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Lhasa railway station
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